From 1851 through 1921 each individual was named and described separately. Surprisingly most of them have been archived and have been placed online free of charge by the Government of Canada (both microfilmed images and transcriptions). It is traversed by the Vermont Central Ry., C. P. R. {Canadian Pacific Railway], and United Counties Ry. The Province of Québec was made up of counties and territories. This page was last modified 09:52, 13 July 2017. Since the 1980s many small townships and parishes are merging into larger "municipalities", often with the same name as one of their components. (An unorganized area or unorganized territory is any geographic region in Canada that does not form part of a municipality or Indian reserve. The communities included townships and/or cantons, depending on the English/French makeup of the county concerned, and also included ecclesiastical parishes with somewhat different boundaries which could overlap with local townships or cantons. The contents vary. Unfortunately, enumerators were required only to record the birthplace province or country (if an immigrant). Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu. It is traversed by the Vermont Central Ry., C. P. R. {Canadian Pacific Railway], and United Counties Ry. Eventually all the Québec cantons in WeRelate will be described as townships. Categories: Québec, Canada | Iberville, Québec, Canada | ----, Québec, Canada | Quebec Historical Counties, http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/electoral-atlas/032001-119.02-e.php?image_id=e000835649&prov_page_nbr=147, Municipalities and Parishes in the Province of Quebec, County of Iberville, Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), La Mémoire du Québec online. All can be searched by name or browsed by electoral district. This shows the electoral sub-districts in 1895 which are closely equivalent to the townships and parishes of the time. You may find placenames red-linked unless you follow these conventions. The regions existed before the change from historic counties to regional county municipalities. Those of 1825, 1831 and 1841 record only the householders by name, but remaining members of each household were counted by sex and by age range. The links below are to the introductory page for the specific census year. Because the former or historic counties and the modern regional county municipalities can have the same names but may cover a slightly different geographical area, the placenames for Regional County Municipalities or "Territories Equivalent to regional county municipalities" are distinguished by including the abbreviation "RCM" or "TE" following the name. Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu, Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville, Parliament of Canada Federal Riding History: SAINT-JEAN (Quebec), Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sainte-Brigide-d%27Iberville,_Quebec&oldid=852166946, Incorporated places in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Notes: 2011 income data for this area has been suppressed for data quality or confidentiality reasons. Beginning in 1979 the historic counties of Québec were replaced by administrative regions and regional county municipalities (abbreviated as RCM in English and MRC in French). – References: 2011, This page was last edited on 27 July 2018, at 02:58. Many townships disappeared before 1980 with the growth of urbanization. Please use this information as a guide. Censuses were taken throughout the 19th century in Quebec (or in Lower Canada or Canada West before 1867). If the word parish is used, this is the local ecclesiastical parish of the Roman Catholic Church. Ecclesiastical parish registers have been retained and are available to view (online through Ancestry). Placenames should be made up of four parts: the community (or parish, or township, or canton), the historic county, Québec, Canada. FamilySearch and Quebec GenWeb follow the same procedure. Links to the records follow from these pages. Photo: Jpguillet, CC BY-SA 3.0. However, it is always wise to know the current RCM as well in order to track these documents down in local repositories and also to describe events which have taken place since 1980. Each county included communities with some form of local governement (often church-based). As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you find any errors, please email us and report them. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Iberville area. Thanks! "IBERVILLE, a county in the south part of Quebec, bounded on the west by the Richelieu River, comprises an area of 120,960 acres. Historic counties (which were taken out of use in about 1982) were made up of townships or cantons.